Are feminists man haters?

cornholiomangus · 2010-11-07T16:55:19+00:00

Yes.

superiority · 2010-11-07T02:33:37+00:00

This link is to the abstract of the study. For those who can't get through the journal's paywall, I've uploaded a copy here (I think I've got the sharing settings right). Hostility towards men was measured using the "Ambivalence toward men inventory" developed by Peter Glick and Susan T. Fiske. I've uploaded the paper describing it here. Some key passages relating to the methodology from the main article:

Undergraduate students (N = 488) from a large, nonresidential, Hispanic-serving public university in Texas participated. Sixty-six percent of respondents were women. Forty-one percent (n = 200) of the respondents identified as Latina/o, 27% (n = 133) as African American, 16% (n = 80) as White, and 7% (n = 32) as Asian American.

The AMI (Glick & Fiske, 1999) served as the measure of attitudes toward men. The AMI measures two types of attitudes toward men: Hostility toward Men (HM) and Benevolence toward Men (BM). The nature of these attitudes characterizes men as inferior in ways that are regarded as culturally recognized and approved and are not threatening to male power, such as the notion that men behave like babies when they are sick.HM taps into resentment about men’s power relative to women; men’s aggressiveness; cultural attitudes that portray men as superior; and the ways in which men exert control within intimate heterosexual relationships. Individuals with high HM scores tend to agree with statements such as “When men act to ‘help’ women, they are often trying to prove they are better than women” and “Most men pay lip service to equality for women, but can’t handle having a woman as an equal.”

BM represents overtly positive or affectionate attitudes toward men. BM consists of a set of beliefs that hold that, just as women are dependent on men, so too are men dependent on women. BM assesses the degree to which an individual believes that the role of women is to take care of men, but only inside the domestic sphere. Experiencing subjectively positive feelings of affectionate protectiveness, admiration, and connection with men in intimate relationships represents benevolence toward men. Thosewho score high on BM agree with statements such as “Women are incomplete without men” and “Even if both members of a couple work, the woman ought to be more attentive to taking care of her man at home.”

Respondents were also asked to define feminism. Although there are many kinds of feminism (e.g., liberal, Marxist, eco-), definitions converge on an emphasis on the desire for equal rights for women (for a discussion, see, e.g., Leaper & Brown, 2008; Zucker, 2004). The definition of feminism in the present study included any reference to equal rights for women, the acknowledgement of inequality between women and men, and the need for social change on behalf of women. Two independent raters, using this rather broad definition of feminism, rated a subsample of respondents’ definitions for consistency with our operational definition of feminism. We looked for definitions that included these explanations as well as terms such as liberation and equality and their synonyms. Many of the definitions of feminism that were coded as not consistent with the operational definition of feminism were cases in which feminism was confused with feminine (e.g., “Feminism is being ladylike.”). A few definitions included simple statements such as “feminism is disliking men,” which were coded as inconsistent with the operational definition of feminism. Responses were included as consistent with our operational definition of feminism only if they included some reference to gender equality; a definitionwas counted as consistent if it made some statement about dislikingmen, as long as it also included a reference to gender equality. “Feminists are women who dislike men and want to have the same rights as men have” was an acceptable definition. A few definitions referred to feminists as women who want to be superior to men (Feminism is “when women think they are better than men”), and these definitions were coded as inconsistent with our operational definition of feminism. Inter-rater agreement between two coders on definitions was 94%. Finally, respondents were asked whether they were feminists and were classified according to one of three categories: feminists, nonfeminists, and those who were unsure as to whether they are feminists. The survey included other survey questions that are not part of the present study and concluded with demographic questions.

The multivariate main effect for Feminist Identification was significant (Wilks’s Lambda = .96, F(1, 198) = 4.43, p = .01, η2 = .04). The univariate tests revealed Feminist Identification main effects for BM, F(1, 199) = 8.26, p = .01, η2 = .04, and HM, F(1, 199) = 4.81, p = .03, η2 = .02. An examination of the means shows that, consistent with our hypotheses, feminists had lower levels of BM and HM than nonfeminists. Thus, contrary to popular stereotypes, feminists had lower levels of hostility toward men than did nonfeminists. The multivariate Feminist Identification × Gender interaction was not significant, Wilks’s Lambda = .99, F(2, 198) = .29, p = .75, η2 = .00, nor was the multivariate Feminist Identification × Ethnicity interaction, Wilks’s Lambda = .98, F(2, 198) = .2.20, p = .11, η2 = .02. Table 2 shows the means from this analysis. This analysis did produce significant effects associated with Gender and Ethnicity, but the effects are redundant with analyses using the entire sample that are reported below.

Contrary to the common stereotype, feminists in the present study reported lower levels of hostility toward men than did nonfeminists. The presence of feminist men alone cannot explain the relatively low levels of hostility toward men in the Feminist category because there was no significant Gender × Feminist Identification interaction on hostility toward men. Our finding of gender difference replicates the Glick et al. (2004) finding that women in the United States and other nations have more hostility overall toward men than do men. It is important to position women’s hostility toward men in general against feminists in general, including women and men who selfidentify as feminists. Again, the present study found that, whereas women’s hostility toward men was higher than was men’s, feminists’ hostility toward men was lower than nonfeminists’.

aetheralloy · 2010-11-07T02:29:45+00:00

If you ask them this question and don't accept cop-out answers, eventually they will say this:

"Women can't hate men, because men have oppressed them so it isn't the same thing."

cymothoe · 2010-11-07T03:06:01+00:00

Title	Are feminists man haters?
Author	superiority
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Date	November 7, 2010 2:25 AM UTC (15 years ago)
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